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Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care:
Long-Term Care and Home Care, Fourth Edition

by Susan Alvare Hedman, Jetta Fuzy, RN, MS, and Katherine Howard, MS, RN-BC, CNE



Our most comprehensive nursing assistant training textbook includes information about long-term care, as well as home health care, and some material about subacute and acute care. This edition contains the following:

  • In-depth information on resident and client rights, including instructional boxes throughout that teach ways to promote independence and prevent abuse and neglect
  • New information on trauma-informed care, gender identity, dental implants, electronic documentation, and mental health disorders
  • Up-to-date, comprehensive material on infection prevention, including new information about COVID-19
  • Many new photos and more website resources
  • Material on anatomy and physiology with an emphasis on normal changes of aging and observing and reporting
  • Updated nutrition information on MyPlate, special diets, dining styles, and thickened liquids and texture-modified foods
  • Current information on legal issues, such as HIPAA, the Patient Self-Determination Act, the Elder Justice Act, and advance directives and related medical orders
  • 7 chapters focusing on home health care, including information on medications, safety, infection prevention, mothers and newborns, and meal planning and preparation
  • 1 chapter containing subacute and acute care information, including preoperative and postoperative care, as well as mechanical ventilation, chest tubes, and artificial airways
  • Chapter-ending material that develops critical thinking and tests chapter comprehension
  • Comprehensive testing section available to instructors, including 62 chapters exams (two sets of exams for each chapter), two final exams, and a critical thinking exam, along with a practice exam for students taking the certification test
  • Table of procedures, common abbreviations list, a special appendix with a math review, and glossary included

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Workbook

for Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Care, Fourth Edition

The workbook is affordable! Often it’s half the cost of competing workbooks.

Because the workbook is designed to help students review what they have learned from reading the textbook, it is organized around learning objectives, which work like a built-in study guide. Multiple choice questions, true/false statements, critical thinking scenarios, and other activities test the student’s knowledge of each chapter. A skills checklist and practice certification exam are located at the end of the workbook.


Videos

Our skills videos help prepare students for their clinical skills testing. Upon adoption, we provide easy web access for instructors and their students at no extra charge. For more information about Hartman’s new skill videos, please click here.



Instructor’s Guide

for Hartman’s Nursing Assistant Care: Long-Term Care and Home Care, Fourth Edition

The instructor’s guide to teaching from our textbook contains the following elements for every chapter: an overview of teaching strategies; page references for both the textbook and student workbook; teaching outlines for every learning objective; a chapter review which may contain case studies, role-playing scenarios, games, discussion questions, and chapter exams, and final exams.

Our Instructor's Website contains everything included in the print version as well as the following:

  • PowerPoint presentations
  • Procedure checklists
  • Key terms lists
  • Customer-requested handouts
  • Additional skills/procedures
  • Activity worksheets
  • Critical thinking exams

PowerPoint presentations for each chapter complement the instructor’s guide content and include abbreviated lecture material, student-directed questions, and critical thinking questions related to the procedures.


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